Wales Online reports that Swansea physics graduate Dr Lyn “The Atom” Evans is a finalist in the Innovation and Technology award category of the inaugural St David national awards for his work leading the Large Hadron Collider project at CERN.

The Aberdare-born scientist Dr Lyn “The Atom” Evans, a physics graduate from Swansea University, is a finalist in the Innovation and Technology award category for his work leading the Large Hadron Collider project at CERN, in Switzerland, which led to the discovery of the Higgs boson - dubbed the “God particle”.